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SHEIKHATES BLUES (2004)

Jon W. — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:10:53 +0000

The female Moroccan musicians known as sheikhates sing about the realities of life – about the land, nature, wars, mountains, crises and, of course, they sing about love. In short, their music represents the heritage of Morocco. Director Ali Essafi offers a marvelous portrait of the daily lives of these regional folk singers, exploring how their music has evolved over the years – along with society’s acceptance of the women who perform this music in public. SHEIKHATES BLUES features interviews with many of the popular musicians of today, who perform a number of their wonderful songs, and culminates with a colorful sheikhates performance at the Rabat Music Festival of 2003.

Director: Ali Essafi.
Writer: Ali Essafi.
Stars: Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Pran Sikand, Premnath Malhotra, Sonia Sahni, Durga Khote, Aruna Irani, Prem Chopra, Farida Jalal, Piloo J. Wadia, Pinchoo Kapoor, Jagdish Raj, Shashi Kiran, Raj Rani, Aarti, Chanda, Kamal Boy, Bhanumati, Mona Saxena, Ghanshyam Rohera, H. L. Pardesi, Kuku Kohli, Mansaram, Madhup Sharma.
Cinematographers: Ivan Boccara, Ali Essafi.

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BAB EL HADID (1958)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:47:15 +0000

Renowned Egyptian director Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with Cairo Station after it screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Focusing on a group of marginalised luggage carriers and soft-drink sellers who live in abandoned traincars, Chahine posits Cairo’s main railroad station as a microcosm of Egyptian society. A crippled newspaper dealer (played powerfully by Chahine himself), falls in love with a beautiful but indifferent lemonade seller who is engaged to the muscular and virile leader of the luggage-carriers. Swept away by his obsessive desire, the crippled man kidnaps the object of his passion, with terrible consequences.

Director: Youssef Chahine. AKA Cairo Station.
Writers: Abdel Hai Adib (screenplay), Mohamed Abu Youssef (dialogue).
Stars: Youssef Chahine, Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdulaziz Khalil, Naima Wasfy, Said Khalil, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Loutfi El Hakim, Abdel Hamid Bodaoha, F. El Demerdache, Ahmed Abaza, Hana Abdel Fattah, Safia Sarwat, Asaad Kellada, Sherine, Soheir, Esmat Mahmoud, Nawal Morsi, Gharib Moawad, Mohamed Mazhar, Galal Issa, Mahrous El Garhi, Ahmed El Tantawi.
Cinematographer: Alevise Orfanelli (as Alvise).
Composer: Fouad El-Zahry (as Fouad El Zahiri).

1958 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.

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AL-ASFOUR (1972)

Jon W. — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:00:02 +0000

Set during the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the United Arab Republic this story of familial and national divisions has become one of Chahine’s most popular films in festivals and retrospectives. A young policeman’s adoptive father occupies a high post in the force, while his biological father is reputed to have been a left-wing activist. Raouf begins to search for those who might have known his real father, while his half-brother, stationed on the Sinai front, prepares for battle.

THE SPARROW was banned in May 1973, then received in December of the same year the country’s highest cultural award. More importantly, however, is that starting from THE SPARROW, Chahine departed from the conventional mainstream cinema of his time and developed his own individual style, hence emerging as a pioneer in this respect; instead of using a linear plot, he displayed a new liking for fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of disparate material such as flashbacks, actual events, associations and documentary sequences. The overall result of these shifts was the inception of a new phase in his films which was dedicated to experimentation and innovation.

Director: Youssef Chahine. AKA The Sparrow / العصفور
Writer: Youssef Chahine.
Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman, Maryam Fakhruddin, Mohsena Tawfik, Habiba.
Cinematographer: Mustafa Imam.
Composer: Aly Ismail.

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THE SANDWICH (1975)

Jon W. — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:21:58 +0000

The Sandwich explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south of Egypt pass through without stopping. A boy outsmarts the meagerness of his circumstances by dripping goat’s milk on a piece of stale bread and turning it into a special sandwich.

Director: Attiyat El-Abnudi.
Writers: Attiyat El-Abnudi (script), Abdel Rahman El-Abnudi (idea).

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EL HARAM (1965)

Jon W. — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:26:08 +0000

A poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henry Barakat. Azziza is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes for her husband. She does not relate the incident to her husband who is suffering from an undisclosed illness. Azziza hides the pregnancy and strangles the baby after it is born, but she also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.

Director: Henry Barakat.
Writers: Youssef Idriss (novel), Saad al-Din Wahbah.
Stars: Abdallah Gheith, Faten Hamamah, Zaki Rustum.
Cinematographer: Ahmed Dia Al-Mahdi.
Composer: Gamil Soliman (as Suleiman Gamil).

1965 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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SATIN ROUGE (2002)

Jon W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:01:51 +0000

After the death of her husband, Lilia’s life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of the place, Lilia gets consistently drawn back to it. She befriends one of the belly dancers and is encouraged into dancing for the audience. Lilia also starts a romance with one of the cabaret’s musicians, who unbeknown to both of them, is also romancing Salma.

Director: Raja Amari. AKA Red Satin.
Writer: Raja Amari.
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Maher Kamoun, Hend El Fahem, Monia Hichri, Faouzia Badr, Nadra Lamloum, Abou Moez El Fazaa, Salah Miled.
Cinematographer: Diane Baratier.
Composer: Nawfel El Manaa.

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SKOOT HANSAWWAR (2001)

Jon W. — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:00:45 +0000

Drama about Malak, a rich and famous singing star who, when her husband leaves her, takes up with the younger, handsome Lamei. What Malak can’t see – but her family can – is that Lamei is only after her money.

Director: Youssef Chahine. AKA Silence… We’re Rolling.
Writer: Youssef Chahine.
Stars: Latifa, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Wafik, Magda-El-Khatib, Zaky Fateen Abdel Wahab, Ahmed Mehrez, Mostafa Shaaban, Ruby, Chérif Mohy Eddine, Khaled Fouad, Hani Salama, Hanan Turk, Khaled El Ghandour.
Cinematographer: Pierre Dupouey.
Composers: Gamal Békhit, Omar Khairat, Kaushar Mostapha.

2001 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.

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TROP TÔT/TROP TARD (1981)

Jon Whitehead — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:26:49 +0000

Shot in the summer of 1980, this film from longtime directorial partners Straub and Huillet investigates the changing relationship between people, the land, and society in France and Egypt.

Directors: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub. AKA Too Early/Too Late
Writers: Friedrich Engels, Mahmoud Hussein.
Cinematographers: Robert Alazraki (segment “B”), Caroline Champetier (segment “A”), William Lubtchansky (segment “A”), Marguerite Perlado (segment “B”).